{"id":597377,"date":"2026-02-17T23:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/597377\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:42:10","slug":"david-pollack-shreds-college-football-postseason-format-it-just-ticks-me-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/597377\/","title":{"rendered":"David Pollack shreds college football postseason format: ‘It just ticks me off’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this day and age of the College Football Playoff<\/a>, it appears that tweaks are being made on a season-by-season basis. Although multiple changes have been made, including the expansion of the Playoff and a more fair way to seed teams, David Pollack<\/a><\/strong> remains unhappy with the format.<\/p>\n

Pollack joined Greg McElroy on the Feb. 16 edition of \u2018Always College Football<\/a>\u2018, where he went over multiple things that he was unhappy about. Pollack first mentioned the seeding, although it would be hard to change that. Teams with a First Round bye are 1-7 (with the lone exception being Indiana in 2025) over the past two seasons, leading to many believing that there should be a more fair way to evaluate the teams who have earned the top seeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve got right now\u2026 it just ticks me off,\u201d Pollack said. \u201cWe\u2019ve always had problems, but this year with the Lane (Kiffin)<\/a><\/strong> thing, it pushed me over the edge. First of all, we got top four seeds getting a bye fixed. Now, is that advantageous? Teams that get byes are 1-7. So something is not going right off that point. We\u2019ve got that fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second of all, Pollack campaigned for the abolishment of conference championships. Although Indiana<\/a><\/strong> won both the Big Ten title and the National Championship Game this season, many have argued that it doesn\u2019t seem fair for certain teams to have to play an extra game before playing in the Playoff, while others got a bye that week.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now, let\u2019s move on from conference championships,\u201d Pollack continued. I would love to see conference championships go away. I used to prioritize them and I sat with Kirby Smart<\/a><\/strong> last year and asked him how much an SEC Championship means. He said \u2018it means a lot. It means a ton, but with the calendar and what we\u2019re doing, it shouldn\u2019t mean that much. It shouldn\u2019t be a punishment to go play in the SEC Championship Game\u2019. And like, I think he\u2019s right. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an advantage to go play in that game. You can get rid of conference championship games because they don\u2019t mean that much.<\/p>\n

Finally, the former two-time SEC Defensive Player of the Year campaigned for more home games, the removal of G5 teams from the field, and an expansion of the Playoff. The three G5 teams that have made the College Football Playoff in the past two seasons (Boise State<\/a><\/strong>, Tulane<\/a><\/strong>, and James Madison<\/a><\/strong>) were outscored 123-58 in their three games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to see home games. I would love to see more home games. Do another round of home games. Neutral sites aren\u2019t that great. It\u2019s so much better when those games are at home and the energy is through the roof and it\u2019s amazing. Don\u2019t ever give me two G5 teams again, and don\u2019t give me any G5 teams again. We don\u2019t really need G5 teams in this. They\u2019re not in there to win it or be competitive. I understand what we\u2019re doing having people that can obtain goals and stuff, but they can\u2019t win it. They can barely compete in a game and make it a game where it\u2019s remotely close.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s still a lot to be fixed. It would be advantageous to move to a couple higher numbers (of teams in the Playoff) because two years ago you had Alabama<\/a><\/strong> and Ole Miss<\/a><\/strong> sitting on the outside that you can make a case for, and Miami<\/a><\/strong> this year was on the edge teetering and played for (the National Championship). It shows more teams can get hot and make a run.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this day and age of the College Football Playoff, it appears that tweaks are being made on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":597378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[161676,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-597377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-david-pollack-01-shiloh","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116088625266150066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}